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Demystifying Shamans and Their World
A Multidisciplinary Study
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2011
Shamanism can be described as a group of techniques by which its practitioners enter the “spirit world,” purportedly obtaining information that is used to help and to heal members of their social group. Despite a resurgence of interest in shamanism and shamanic states of consciousness, these phenomena...
A Conservative Consensus?
Housing Policy Before 1997 and After
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
New Labour would like to portray 1997 as a new beginning for public policy, but Peter King argues that we now have, in housing and in other areas of public policy, a consensus based on Thatcherite reforms. He explores the particularly conservative understanding of housing that transformed public attitudes...
Shadow, Self, Spirit
Essays in Transpersonal Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Transpersonal Psychology concerns the study of those states and processes in which people experience a deeper sense of who they are, or a greater sense of connectedness with others, with nature, or the spiritual dimension. Pioneered by respected researchers such as Jung, Maslow and Tart, it has nonetheless...
Understanding Faith
Religious Belief and Its Place in Society
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2011
Militant atheists often mirror the worst kind of ignorance and hostility that they condemn in traditional believers. Writing both as a philosopher and an Anglican Christian, Professor Clark explores this initial perception, considering such topics as the alleged openness of ‘scientists’ compared...
by William Aiken
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
This collection of essays brings together moral, social and political philosophers from Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States who explore a wide range of issues under the three headings of Philosophy, Society and Culture; Ethics, Economics and Justice; and Rights, Law and Punishment....
T.H. Green's Theory of Positive Freedom
From Metaphysics to Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
In this new and entirely revised edition of his study of Green's theory of positive freedom, Ben Wempe argues that the far-reaching and beneficial influence of Green's political doctrine, on public policy as well as in the field of political theory, was founded on a misinterpretation of his philosophical...
New Labour's Old Roots
Revisionist Thinkers in Labour's History: Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2015
The New Labour project was not conjured up out of thin air — it only looks that way because of the party's amnesia about the intellectual roots and political traditions which have guided it. This book provides extracts from fifteen thinkers and politicians located within the revisionist tradition as...
The 'Puritan' Democracy of Thomas Hill Green
With Some Unpublished Writings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
The central concern of this book is to demonstrate how Puritanism was a theme which ran through all Green’s biography and political philosophy. It thereby reveals how Green’s connections with Evangelicalism and his known affinities with religious dissent came from his way of conceiving Puritanism....
Liberty, Authority, Formality
Political Ideas and Culture, 1600-1900
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The essays in this volume are all inspired by the historical scholarship of J.C. Davis. During a prolific career, Davis has transformed our understanding of early modern utopian literature and its contexts, and compelled students of seventeenth-century English to re-evaluate the significance of movements...
by Gene Callahan
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2012
The political systems of the Roman Republic were based almost entirely on tradition, "the way of the ancestors", rather than on a written constitution. While the founders of the American Republic looked to ancient Rome as a primary model for their enterprise, nevertheless, in line with the rationalist...
The Political Potential of Sortition
A Study of the Random Selection of Citizens for Public Office
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
The central feature of every true lottery is that all rational evaluation is deliberately excluded. Once this principle is grasped, the author argues, we can begin to understand exactly what benefits sortition can bring to the political community. The book includes a study of the use of sortition...
by William Sweet
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
The British idealists of the late 19th and early 20th century are best known for their contributions to metaphysics, logic, and political philosophy. Yet they also made important contributions to social and public policy, social and moral philosophy and moral education, as shown by this volume. Their...
Adolf Hitler Origins of a Psychopath
The Nephilim Connection - A Biblical Account
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Why do psychopaths exist? From where did they originate? Who are the Nephilim? What is iniquity? How does God organize family lines? What patterns of iniquity occurred in the Hitler family line as did the Nephilim? Find answers to these questions and more in Adolf Hitler, Origins of a Psychopath. The...
by Lindsay Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Liberal education used to command wide political support. Radicals disagreed with conservatives on whether the best culture could be appreciated by everyone, and they disagreed, too, on whether the barriers to understanding it were mainly social and economic, but there was no dispute that any worthwhile...